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This article sketches the origins of paper money in Norway back to the last half of the 18th century and asks why there … put forward is that the choice of fiat paper money reflected the relative economic backwardness of the country. Although … Gresham's law also applied for Norway, the most important reason paper money caught on and maintained that position as the …
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. As such, it can be described as the first true central bank. The debut of central bank money did not result from any …
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This paper presents a monetary-theoretic model to study the implications of networks' collection of personal identifying data and data security on each other's incidence and costs of identity theft. To facilitate trade, agents join clubs (networks) that compile and secure data. Too much data...
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A controversial aspect of payment cards has been the 'no-surcharge rule.' This rule, which is part of the contract between the card provider and a merchant, states that the merchant cannot charge a customer who pays by card more than a customer who pays by cash. In this paper we consider the...
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Entrepreneurs need cash to finance their real investments. Since cash is costly to hold, entrepreneurs will underinvest. If entrepreneurs can access financial markets prior to learning about an investment opportunity, they can sell some of their less liquid assets for cash and, as a result,...
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We hope to model financial fragility and money in a way that captures much of what is crucial in Hyman Minsky …
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integrated analysis of money, finance and macroeconomics and its application to changing institutional and historical …
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money and credit coexist. An increase in inflation affects unemployment through two channels: the matching channel and the …
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The fact that money, banking, and financial markets interact in important ways seems self-evident. The theoretical … for government money, where the terms of bank deposit contracts are constrained by the liquidity insurance available in …
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consequence, a positive liquidity differential between money and real assets emerges, resulting in an increased demand for fiat … money, as observed since the eruption of the global financial crisis. A policy intervention replacing information sensitive … assets with government bonds or fiat money, as done in the asset-purchase program implemented by the Federal Reserve Bank …
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